[gmpi] Re: Reqs 3.8 Events - gesture start/end
- From: "Jeff McClintock" <jeffmcc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 08:22:43 +1300
> So along with my suggestion to not have gesture ID's, the host simply
> starts a gesture for a parameter and then pumps down the merged data.
Yes, any host that merges Controllers should also merge gestures. It's not
the plugin's job to sort out.
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Berry" <mberry@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 5:33 AM
Subject: [gmpi] Re: Reqs 3.8 Events - gesture start/end
>
>
> Chris Grigg wrote:
> > Tim said:
> >
> >
> > Also: Mike (and anyone else), what do you think about the other issue
> > Tim's been exploring, i.e. is there any need to limit the number of
> > event sources that are allowed to talk to a given control/target?
>
> I think this is a non-issue. Somewhere in the host a merge has to
> happen. Take the example where you have two MIDI controllers, a keyboard
> and some sliders. If the data comes in on two ports, the host could know
> the difference between them, but for how long? At some point the data
> becomes parsed for internal use. I have been trying to see why you would
> want to try to preserve the source ID, and I can't see it. If they are
> both changing the same parameter, then what the user hears is the effect
> of the merged data. If they undo, they don't expect to undo half of what
> they heard being recorded, ending up with a result that they have never
> heard. They expect the data from both sources to be undone in a single
> action.
> So along with my suggestion to not have gesture ID's, the host simply
> starts a gesture for a parameter and then pumps down the merged data.
>
> --
> Mike Berry
> Adobe Systems
>
>
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